Acute Ward
Factor Analysis of Acute Ward Nurses’ Concepts of Life and Death
... Previous studies from Oyama et al. [3] and Negishi et al. [14] revealed that items assessing death avoidance were endorsed less frequently than in the present study. Furthermore, Okamoto et al. [15] observed that ...
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The Nature and Purpose of Acute Psychiatric Wards: The Tompkins Acute Ward Study
... of acute inpatient wards enables the definition of what constitutes effective and efficient acute ...effective acute ward is one where patients are kept safe, accurately assessed, given ...
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Serious untoward incidents and their aftermath in acute inpatient psychiatry: The Tompkins Acute Ward Study
... Changes introduced in the wake of an SUI could take place straight away, or be introduced later as a response to issues thrown up by more thorough investigation (e.g. the removal of potential ligature points). Senior ...
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Occupational Therapy and Multidisciplinary Working on Acute Psychiatric Wards: The Tompkins Acute Ward Study
... (e.g. ward, profession, ...with ward staff by members of the research team allowed continuous informal discussion and feedback of ...each ward and presented at Trust conferences, to ensure ...
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Patient ethnicity and three psychiatric intensive care units compared: the Tompkins Acute Ward Study
... psychiatric wards has found peak absconding times during nursing shift handovers (Bowers et al. 1999), also indicating the importance of supervision and security. However the efficacy of locked doors in preventing ...
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Adverse incidents, patient flow and nursing workforce variables on acute psychiatric wards: the Tompkins Acute Ward Study
... Data on adverse incidents are routinely collected by nursing reports, which are entered on a proprietary computer system. We were provided with the dates and wards of all incidents falling into the following categories: ...
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FT4 and TSH, relation to diagnoses in an unselected psychiatric acute ward population, and change during acute psychiatric admission
... the acute psychiatric illness ...from acute state to remission have been described in schizophrenic patients in one study and attrib- uted to medications [5], although it is far from being ...
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Ward staff experiences of patient death in an acute hospital setting
... an acute ward setting for over 20 years had very clear strategies regarding their support networks and boundaries; both these staff members felt they had developed these skills over time to manage their ...
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Psychiatric intensive care units: A literature review
... an acute ward or a PICU (Cohen & Khan 1990;Khan, Cohen, Chiles, Stowell, Hyde, & Robbins ...ordinary acute ward patients in both ...
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The Relationship between Therapeutic Alliance and Service User Satisfaction in Mental Health Inpatient Wards and Crisis House Alternatives: A Cross-Sectional Study
... the acute ward service users had significant restrictions placed on their freedom, regardless of whether they were detained ...the ward if a staff member was available to open the door, and access ...
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<p>Retrospective Analysis of Factors Associated with Long-Stay Hospitalizations in an Acute Psychiatric Ward</p>
... In Italy, after asylum closure, the length of stay in both public and private psychiatric wards has been considerably reduced due to the hypothesis that the institution itself can represent a pathogenic factor, which can ...
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Experience based co-design reduces formal complaints on an acute mental health ward
... an acute ward when you’re at your most vulnerable, distressed and completely ...in acute mental health the person is the patient: the very things that make you who you are, are in ...the ward ...
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“The balancing act”— Licensed practical nurse experiences of falls and fall prevention: a qualitative study
... rehabilitation ward had successfully implemented a multi-factorial and multi-professional intervention pro- ...and ward infrastructure facilitated the work of pre- venting ...The acute ward ...
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Prevalence, causes and management outcome of intestinal obstruction in Adama Hospital, Ethiopia
... of acute abdomen in Butajira, Ethiopia showed that the average hospital stay was 9 days and a third of patients developed one or more acute complications [9, ...
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Advance Alert Monitor
... Given the scope of this quality improvement initiative, it is likely to yield other quality improvement needs related to patient flow. Pediatric RNs do not have the advanced monitoring systems that often times provide ...
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Southampton mealtime assistance study: design and methods
... on acute care of the elderly wards, which involved a more heterogeneous group of 592 men and women aged 65 years and over with a range of medical conditions in a randomised controlled trial, found no increase in ...
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Interventions following a high violence risk assessment score: a naturalistic study on a Finnish psychiatric admission ward
... Methods: The data were collected in a naturalistic setting during a 6-month period in a Finnish psychiatric admission ward with a total of 331 patients with a mean age of 42.9 years (SD 17.39) suffering mostly ...
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... unaltered sensorium, who did not consent for invasive ventilation. So, we considered these patients for NIV trial. Two of them were managed successfully with NIV while one succumbed to death due to aspiration pneumonia ...
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Hemovigilance -A stepping door to enhancement of blood safety with the reporting of adverse reactions in blood donation and transfusion
... post transfusion serum were normal. Blood in the bag was reddish in color. The other case received total unit of PRBC followed by reddish discoloration of urine in the urobag followed by hemoglobinuria and ...
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Proportion of Intestinal Obstruction and Associated Factors Among Patients with non Traumatic Acute Abdomen Admitted to Surgical Ward in Debre Birhan Referral Hospital, North East Ethiopia
... traumatic acute abdomen admitted to surgical ward in Debre Birhan Referral Hospital from December 8,2015 to January ...with acute abdomen from December 8,2015 to January ...and acute ...
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